[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 100502] The sequence in the "File Type" listing can be confusing when picking a filter/ module to use to import a document

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100502

--- Comment #5 from Heiko Tietze <tietze.heiko@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Daniel B. from comment #4)
> I agree with that. But then again, why do Impress, Writer, Draw, ... open
> each other at all? I mean when I want to open a file with Impress, I press
> File > Open in Impress. I do not expect to get Draw then. I searched for a
> while in Draw for the presentation mode to finally notice that I'm not in
> Impress anymore. The applications are just too similar.

Back in time there was a all-in-once mindset in software development with the
idea that users must not care about software but files. That changed with
mobile devices where apps are paramount now. Personally I'm with you and would
never think about Impress, for instance, when opening a file in Writer. But
keep also in mind that we have a start center offering access to data via
recent files, templates, and file open dialog disregarding what type of file is
being opened. And there it makes sense to show all file types.

Nobody is happy with the current situation, so what can we do (except to break
the workflow with extra dialogs)?
1. Ignore the particular file types that are shown anyway in the overall option
(e.g. text documents vs. odt,ott,sxw,doc... etc.)
2. Separate file types in the current module from the foreign types by HR (e.g.
text,...,-, other)
3. Separate access to module specific files and other types by two different
dialogs (e.g. Open..., Open other...)
4. Provide a system option to enhance the dialog with foreign file types ([x]
Show foreign file types in open dialogs); this option could also be included
into the file dialog
5. Introduce a tree like selection

But actually you shouldn't need to care. The original issue is to _import_ PDF
in Impress. So we should rather make this workflow clear, for example with the
additional menu item "Import...". So my choice would be #3.

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